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The Nebraska Independent
JULY 5, 1906
RAILROAD COMBINE
Pennsylvania-Vanderbilt Interests In
Control of It in the Handling
of Bituminous Coal
Philadelphia The report which the
Interstate Commerce commission will
make to congress will, it is reliably
understood, be .along the following
lines:
1. That the preponderating evidence
is that the bituminous coal business
in the East is controlled by the five
great railroads handling the traffic.
2. That these great railroads virtu
ally form a combination controlled by
the Pennsylvania-Vanderbilt interests,
and that among these interests the
Pennsylvania railroad is the dominat
ing factor.
. 3. That by a large minority stock
ownership in the Baltimore and Ohio,
ChesDeake and Ohio and Norfolk and
Western, the Pennsylvania is able to
control the management and so dic
tates the policies of these roads.
4. That this control, acquired in
1899. and the elimination of all real
competition has been followed by a
very material advance in bituminous
coal rates, resulting in a consequent
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this addine appreciably to the oper
ating expenses of all industries east
of the Allegheny mountains.
5. That with this control there is
nothine to prevent advance In coal
rates, and that, therefore, the stock
ownership which forms the basis or
the combination becomes a public
menace.
fi. TTnon these grounds, the com
mission will likely recommend to,
congress the enactment of a law which
will prevent such ownership by one
railroad of stocks of others, naturally
competing lines, and compelling sale
by the Pennsylvania railroad and oth
er companies of such stocks now neia.
7. That some of the bituminous
coal roads, notably the Baltimore and
Ohio, the Buffalo. Rochester and Pitts
burg, and the New York Central, have
cnne into the ownership of coal com
panies on their lines in a way that
is' dangerous to the pumic, ana nas
tended in important cases to aiscrim
nation against independent opera
tnrs.
8. That in the distribution of cars,
the granting of sidings and in other
ways the evidence has shown gross
discrimination and tamntism, par
tirnlarlv on the Dart of the Pennsyl
vania and Baltimore and Ohio rail-
roaas, wnuse puuy ua-o uci w
the big coal companies and to restrict
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the development of new coal operations.
9. That individual cars owned by
coal shippers have been the vehicle
of favors and unjust discrimination,
and that while they exist the way will
remain open for continuance of such
unjust and - hurtful practices.
10. The commission will recom
mend that the private car system in
the coal business shall be eliminated
and the railroads be required to fur
nish all the equipment; also that
mine' ratings and car distribution be
made and records kept in such way
as to give full opportunity to all coal
operators to see and judge for them
selves whether , they are receiving
just treatment.
11. That the revelations of graft on
the Pennsylvania railroad are ample
evidence that the practice common on
that system, and found to lesser de
gree on the Baltimore, and Ohio, of
railroad officers being interested in
coal properties on their lines, whether
these holdings are by gift or purchase,
are a source of possible if not actual
favoritism, and should not be permitted.
FLAMES TOUCHED DYNAMITE
Six Men Killed by Explosion Near
Evelth, Minn.
Evelth, Minn. Six men lost their
lives in a powder explosion at the
Mohawk mine, between Biwabs and
Aitrora, last night. All were un
married. It is supposed that one of
the men was getting dynamite which
is used in sticks and the flames of
the candle touched it.
His Legal Right
tvtqti tho TTmise Now I've caught
you with the goods. What have you
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First Catch Your Hair
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"I'll be glad to, sir," replied the
barber. "When do you expect to get
if ?"fatholic Standard and Times.
"This is the third time you have re
fused me," protested tne young m
r Ta thpro nn hone?"
Oh, yes," answered the tantalizing
GETS GOVERNMENT AID
Washington The Jamestown ter
centennial exposition will receive gov-
ornmont nlri Sim ountine to $1,325,000
in addition to $250,000 appropriated a
year ago, as the result or me agree
ment by the senate and the house to
night on the sundry civil bill. An
item of $100,000 for the transportation
of troops was struck out, but this ex
pense will be paid from the appropria
tion of $12,000,000 in the army appro
priation bill.
THE GREATEST CHURCHES
There Are Only Nine that Can Come
Under That Title
A Roman journal gives a list of the
great churches of the world. The
estimate allows four persons to every
square yard of space available. Milan
cathedral stands at the head with ca
pacity for 37,000; St. Peter's . holds
32.000; St. Paul's 25,600.
, The capacity of San Petronio, Bo
logna, the Florence cathedral, and the
Antwerp cathedral is about 24,000 a
piece; that of St. Sophia, Constanti
nople is 23,000; that of St. John Late
ran, Rome, about the same (22,900);
that of Notre Dame, Paris, 21,008.
These are the nine great churches
of the world. The Pisa cathedral
comes tenth with a capacity of 13,000.
The cathedral of the City of Mexico
and that of "Notre Dame in Montreal
are the two largest churches in North
America, though they belong to the
second class; St. Stephen, Vienna
(12,000), and St. Dominic, Bologna
(12,000). Everybody's Magazine.
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wheat, oats and other grains and vegetables grow to perfection.
The yield per acre is much greater than in. the most favored sec
tion under normal rainfall. A home market for hay, grain and veg
etables, a growing foreign market for fruit. These lands are sold
and the price of perpetual water right is fixed by the state. The
land is 50cts per acre, the water right $15 to $25 per acre. Terms
of sale $3.25 at date of purchase, $2 in one year and $2.50 yearly
thereafter untill full payment is made. If you want a home which
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Seeing is believing, combine pleasure with business and go see for
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WILL PROBEGRAIN TRUST
Senator LaFollette Secures Passage of
Resolution of Inquiry Similar to
Coal Investigation
Washington The connection of
railroads with the buying and for
warding of grain is to be investigated
by the Interstate Commerce commis
sion. The inquiry will be similar to
that now being prosecuted regarding
the close connections existing between
the railroads and the mine operators.
The elevator trust, the combination of
grain' elevators for securing a mo
nopoly of grain buying, for fixing the
pricesfi and at the same time for co
operating with the railroads to con
trol both prices and rates also will be
mvestigated.
Senator LaFollette, as a radical re
former, today won his first notable
victory in the senate by securing the
adoption of a resolution offered by him
June 5 providing for such an inquiry.
All his previous remedial propositions
had been promptly rejected by the sen
ate. The resolutioa adopted asks "that
the president request the Interstate
Commerce commission to make a
thorough investigation of the elevator
and grain buying and forwarding busi
ness of this country to determine to
what extent special favors have been
granted, the influence which the mo
nopolizing of this branch of business
has had upon the market, the injury
it has worked to the grain producers,
the extent to which the railroads, their
officers, directors, stockholders and
employes own or control the grain
buying and grain forwarding com
panies, and the manner in which these
railroads, their officers, directors,
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stockholders an J employes secured
their holdings in these grain buying
storing and forwarding companies,
and to report the same to the con
gress at its next session."
Senator-LaFollette spoke at "length
on his resolution, declaring that while
the country had been astounded at
the facts disclosed by the investiga
tion conducted under the Tillman-Gil-lespi
resolution of the railroad and
coal operators, the revelations con
cerning the alliance of the railroads
and the grain elevator owners would
be not less surprising.
It has been shown, he said, that
graft and corruption extended in every
direction in the relations existing be
tween the railroads and the coal oper
ators. It will be demonstrated, he
said, that a similar situation prevails
in the handling of grain.
The great grain producing districts,
said Mr. LaFollette, have been par
celled out to elevator companies in
alliance with the railroads, the ar
rangement producing a monopoly for
buying all the grain in a given dis
trict. The elevators are identified
with the railroads, giving every indi
cation of joint ownership, to the great
detriment of the farmers, who should
have the benefit of an open market
and the best prices for their products.
There is absolutely no competition left
the farmer for the purchase of his
grain.
Mr. LaFollette read a letter from
Railroad Commissioner Thorr.3, of
Wisconsin, showing that nearly all
the elevator stock in the state is own
ed by railroad officials and employes.